The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern WitnessThere emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. |
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Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. Contents Preface: Scottish Highland Romance: A Reappraisal ix Introduction: Experience and the Allure of the Improbable 1 PART I. STRUCTURE l. A Musket ...
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. Preface Scottish Highland Romance A Reappraisal Phantoms pervade late modernity. Archival remnants, con~/hyper-/textual traces, and blinking ...
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. years, during the era of the “return to history.” Conjuring the spirit of such deromanticizing classics asjames Kellas's Modern Scotland (1968) and ...
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. The fact is that romance has not disappeared from studies of Highland Scotland, as Sorensen's clever adaptation of core and periphery indicates. And ...
Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness Matthew Wickman. a negotiation of discourses ... Scottish and British national identities. Our contemporary rage for discourse derives from the model of knowledge which ...
Contents
Experience and the Allure of the Improbable | 1 |
STRUCTURE | 21 |
FEELING | 109 |
Notes | 199 |
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Acknowledgments | 251 |
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